A quantitative structural study of late Pan-African compressional deformation in the Central Eastern Desert (Egypt) during Gondwana assembly

Gondwana Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 457-471

  Abdeen, M M ^a   Greiling, R O ^b  

^a NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabian Nubian shield; Late orogenic structure; Pan African; Section restoration; Transpression

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GONDWANA; ISLAND ARC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TERRANE;

ARABIAN SHIELD; EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT; NUBIAN SHIELD;

EID: 27644467576     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)71148-5     Document Type: Article

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